Using Social Media to Increase Civic Engagement Presenter: Jillian Belanger
ELL Coordinator, Paul Cuffee School, and Ph.D. Student, University of Rhode Island
Life Is But a Stream: How to Use Twitter and Pinterest to Stay Current in Your Field, Organize Your Lesson Planning, and Find Great Recipes for Dinner
SETTING THE CONTEXT (10-15 minutes): Collin Brooke's presentation at the 2010 CCCC conference, "Writing Retooled: Loop, Channel, Layer, Stream," provides an overview of information types that Brooke calls "fields," or "stable, static products" and "streams," or constantly updated content like tweets and posts. We will look at how social media sites like Pinterest and Twitter provide opportunities for educators to participate in "streams" related to their fields and areas of interest.
DISCUSS AND SHARE (15 minutes):
Which social media sites do you currently use, and how do you use them?
What potential do you see for social media to provide opportunities to increase civic engagement in our field?
How do our students use social media to engage with one another?
Steve Harvey clip from presentation (Harvey's analysis of hip hop artists' demands to engage audience is similar to social nature of new wave social media): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEindm75OQ (You can sip to around 1:25, where the bit starts)
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Presenter: Jillian Belanger
ELL Coordinator, Paul Cuffee School, and Ph.D. Student, University of Rhode Island
Life Is But a Stream: How to Use Twitter and Pinterest to Stay Current in Your Field, Organize Your Lesson Planning, and Find Great Recipes for Dinner
SETTING THE CONTEXT (10-15 minutes):
Collin Brooke's presentation at the 2010 CCCC conference, "Writing Retooled: Loop, Channel, Layer, Stream," provides an overview of information types that Brooke calls "fields," or "stable, static products" and "streams," or constantly updated content like tweets and posts. We will look at how social media sites like Pinterest and Twitter provide opportunities for educators to participate in "streams" related to their fields and areas of interest.
DISCUSS AND SHARE (15 minutes):
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Prezi from presentation:
http://prezi.com/vk2v5y4bv1ke/social-media-and-civic-engagement/#
Stock, Flow, Field, Stream. Collin Brooke's blog. 4/3/13:
http://www.cgbrooke.net/2013/04/03/stock-flow-field-stream/
Resources for Creating Content on Social Media:
http://pinterest.com/paperwithpencil/social-media-swat-team-resources/
The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World. The Atlantic. 5/22/13:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-art-of-paying-attention/309312/Example of using Pinterest to collect articles:
http://pinterest.com/paperwithpencil/articles/
Steve Harvey clip from presentation (Harvey's analysis of hip hop artists' demands to engage audience is similar to social nature of new wave social media):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEindm75OQ (You can sip to around 1:25, where the bit starts)